Jedi Knight Doomsday Quest Solution and Bug

Viewers have commented on my YouTube video below that the Jedi Knight quest “Doomsday” ancient chest bug has been fixed since this was written back on January 9th, 2012. So that’s good. If you’re looking for how to solve the quest the solution is located down below the videos under the “Solving the Doomsday Puzzle” heading.

So there I was, minding my business, solving this puzzle when all of a sudden a wild graphics glitch appeared. For the record, the machine I was on had an ATI card in it. It was like the lasers / glyphs were completely random (please see the video below). In order to solve the puzzle, I had to log out and log back in on another of my machines with an Nvidia card. The “lasers” were still bugging and jumping around a bit, but I could at least make out the shapes of the puzzle.

Here’s a better video I took more recently when my wife, Azsahle, did her Doomsday quest:

After I went to each post in that room and solved the puzzle, there was a lot of shaking and rumbling going on, and music played, but I didn’t understand why. Expecting some epic boss to spawn or something, I was looking around the room for something to have appeared and found a strange-looking chest I didn’t notice before.

I tried opening what looked like a chest inside a bigger chest, now I had to click the chest that was clipping out of the larger chest to attempt to open it.

After trying to open it, I got the usual “Opening…” action bar in the bottom-middle of the screen.

Once the bar filled all the way up 100% nothing happened, and of course like any other sensible human, I clicked that chest with all the might my mouse had to give it, but it wouldn’t open no matter what angle or clicking combo I used.

I have no clue what was in that chest but I’m curious.

Did anyone out there successfully get this chest open? If so, how did you do it?

Opening the Ancient Chest

In order to get the chest open, you need to solve the laser glyph symbol puzzle (the solution is above) but here’s the warning: Once you’ve solved it, you will have to run all the way out of the instance (where you initially landed your ship, not the Emperors dropship — I mean your own Jedi Defender ship) and Reset the phase. This will make all the mobs/NPCs respawn but rumor has it that once you’ve cleared your way back to the ancient chest you’ll be able to open it. I am sure that this was of course not intended to be this way, but somehow made it past the beta testing. If you try this, please send me a comment and let me know if this worked!

Some are saying that the solution above is the only way you can open the chest for the bug, and some are saying they are not successful in opening the chest even though they tried it, please let me know if it works for you.

I’ve had multiple comments on my YouTube videos that the Warzone trick (enter a War Zone while in the instance and then when you’re done you’ll spawn back in and you will be able to open the chest) does work. If all else fails, please try it!

What did the mysterious chest contain?The “Ancient Chest” has gear for T7, according to the comment Lehnert made on my YouTube video. More specifically, it contains 5 pieces of gear for T7, Item Level 102 – Thanks Katari!

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I also have an ATi card and after much searching found this site and I have the same errors, I can neither make out the erratic jumping lasers on the ground and on the wall pieces themselves. I also cannot open the chest afterwards once I have completed the puzzle.

“get the chest out, then enter a wz﻿
when you get back it will be accessible”

I can’t try this fix out, and I’m sure you probably already finished the quest by now… But for anyone else, this might be a workaround.
Shame it has to come to that just to open a treasure chest though :/

Well, figured out the Warzone trick will indeed work, but only if the WZ lasts long enough that your Jedi Knight Quest instance resets itself. Likewise, if you just go back to the beginning of the instance, leave and reset it manually, then you can re-enter (requires clearing the mobs again) the chest will now be lootable.

Thanks for the info Katari! I recently tried the quest on a friend’s Jedi knight and she had the same problem as I did, we tried the warzone work around but it didn’t work (probably because the instance didn’t reset/repopulate)

I just found out too, that once you’ve solved the puzzle, you can reset the phase from your character portrait and go back inside the instance to the chest and open it.
You’ll have to fight all the mobs/NPCs again to get back in, but you’ll be able to open the chest that way without going into any warzones.

it’s actually kind of cheap, but every time you leave and reset the instance, you can loot the chest again. Twice is enough for T7 to get geared up well. Anything else is too much work for the reward, I’d imagine.

As of SWTOR rev 2.0 release this Quest is no longer bugged. So, you don’t need to zone to complete it. After the earthquake rumbles, you can loot the chest to obtain a Sensor for T-7 with 48 level green components.